thagirion | Entries tagged with sick

I am alive. Ha, Chris and my third time battle with the kung fluey. Nothing has changed. It's the same as it's been for hundreds of years. People need to stop being stupidly scared and go out and live their lives. I talked about this in a previous post already. And for Pete's sake don't get the jab. I would post videos about why but they keep getting taken down and put up all the time so links don't last. I have everything off line though so I will be happy to send any of my friends the videos by JD Farag explaining wonderfully why we should not get it. Let alone the fact it kills a lot of people and is worse than kung fluey. This was our worst one yet but again that's how these things are. Some years the cold is mild and some years it knocks you on your seat.

So we were sick for just over two weeks. About 16 to 17 days. I was behind Chris by two days. The one good thing about all this stupidity only from an introvert stand point is there's no one in stores. Only the brave and informed ones go shopping it seems. It was nice going out yesterday. But this is not good for businesses so people need to grow a spine and get back to work already.

On the budgie front: I have started to build a nest box for Whitey and Minion. I hope I can finish it today. Yes, I am hoping to breed these two together to continue the Lacewing line AND because they have the potential to have amazing talking babies. Minion is at around 230 words while Whitey a rare talking female is at 34! The only thing that worries me is I hope Whitey will be a good mom and sit on her eggs and babies unlike Emma II. Funny enough I had the unfinished nextbox in my room and Whitey went into it when it wasn't even attached to any cage. She's so ready to be a mom. She's been showing the signs, but so was Emma II. Doesn't mean they'll know what to do. I worry about Minion too. He is an expert at mating with his perches. But when I gave him Whitey, a real female, he had not idea what to do. And sometimes she's mean to him. I'm afraid to close him in a cage with her. But leaving the door open nothing might ever happy. I don't want Whitey sitting on infertile eggs all alone. But it would be cool. We don't know Minion's genetic back ground so will be neat to see what surprise colors might happen.

I have finished another drawing and recorded all the progress. It ended up being five time lapse videos. I'll post the first two if you guys want to see.

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I am also working on animating my default icon. I am going to have him blink and you'll see how the glow of his eyes goes away when he closes his eyes. I have to make the other frames and fix all the layers before that's done though. And as you see I have a new icon. Not so sure it works at this small size of 100 pixels wide. I had to lighten him. You can't see his face other than his eyes but I'm willing to try it for now.

And I have sprouted some pumpkin seeds. I'm going to try again despite all the failures of the past. I'm hoping that using the right sprays, planting in the off season now that things will be cooling off hopefully fewer bugs and diseases I hope I might have a chance at harvesting pumpkins. The clear film broke on my patio finally and it's amazing how quickly disease and bugs got in and already destroyed some of my plants.

I only have one tadpole/froglet left of the Santa frogs. Three made it to frog stage. Everything else died but this one. I'm very upset because I think all 16 could have made it if I hadn't listed to the masses. Everyone said to put them into tilt cups once they grow arms and stop feeding them because they absorbe their tails and quit eating. So many were dying and coming out all deformed. Well this last one that is left I put a rock in the water tank so it made an island. He went on it. I then added a spoonful of soil with springtails and he's eating them and looking healthier. I'm so upset now that I starved my other froggies. I know it's not my fault, I did not know. But I'm mad at the "experts" that put this BS out there. I had 16 frogs that could have made it. I might end up with 4 and two are deformed.

Chris and I have been playing Subnautica Below Zero. It's not as good as the first game. I won't go into why in this post but just like with Conan Exiles we dont' care much about beating it or story. We've just been focusing on building a cool base.
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Chris is doing better. He's two days ahead of me. I'm better too but not really well enough to be up and doing anything. I lost some tadpoles during this which I'm not happy about. Transitioning from tadpole to frog always seems to have risks even if the tadpole was eating and healthy. I don't know why. I hate that. but the worst thing was today my parrotlet Melville died. I was well enough to do bird dishes. Chris went out to the patio to feed birds and tells me "Melville died." I couldn't believe it when I heard it. What? Why?? He was totally fine yesterday. What I can tell is a snake got on the patio, tried to eat him, couldn't and left. His feathers were matted with dried saliva but he has wide shoulders so the snake was not able to finish him. We looked everywhere but could not find the snake. We don't know how it got in or out on our patio. It's been a long time since something like this has happened. I'm very upset. Melville was a nice bird. He acted like a jerk a times and was loud but he did not bite and you could pet and grab him. I had plans to breed him with Nautica. Nautica liked him and he could talk a little bit. He could say "Ahoy Melville." I'm very upset. Sudden unexpected deaths are the worst. And I had forgotten how expensive parrotlets are. I don't know how I was able to afford him. I won't buy from the breeder I got him from since it was not a good experience but out of curiosity I went to her site. Yike!! How did I ever afford him? And even if I could get another one it would be a baby. I think adults are hard to find so that would be another year wasted waiting to breed. Parrotlets live longer than budgies at least so if I want to try again I can. When I get better I NEED to build the nestbox for Whitey and Minion. Time's wasting and I can't let the lacewing gene go extinct. I think I'm a lot better physically but I'm very crappy feeling right now after the loss of my bird. That snake better not show up because I will chop its head off.
EDIT: Snake has been dispatched.
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Hey guys. I disappeared for a long time didn't I? That's because I've been sick. Last week Chris caught something. Could have been the flu could have been the China virus. Doesn't matter we're not afraid of these things. So he was in bed and I was happy to take care of him. I was also working on my new frog tank at the time. But two days in I started to feel what I thought was fibro. Well it was. It tends to go off when anything else is wrong. But then I could feel cold like symptoms in my head and knew it was going to get worse. So next day I'm sick too now which sucks because we broke one of our "vows" we made. That being: Both of us can't be sick at the same time. Only one of us may get sick at a time so the other can take care of them. Ha, yes we know that's out of our hands but we like to quote that. So we've been taking care of each other when we're strong enough to get up and make hot teas, and give each other chicken soup, cough medicine, fever reducers and any other medication we need. We've been too weak to drive but since we have a stock pile of food and water for emergencies we've been eating that. The fevers have been pretty relentless. We've been giving each other ice packs, and for me wet rags. I can't handle cold stuff it hurts too much. We're finally on the mend. YAY. I've also had congestion and been using nasal sprays. So we could use prayers from you all to help with speeding recovery. If this was Hong Kong fluey then we're happy to be done with it so now we're immune and covered for another year. Might be our 3rd time. Just like it's always been.
Remember when everyone used to go to work and school while dog dead sick? That shouldn't change. People weren't afraid to make a living because lies weren't being blasted at them all the time. There were other types of lies back then but not like today. I remember phrases and conversations like, "Don't come near me, I have a cold."
"It's ok I already had it." or.
"It's ok. I have a special meeting next week and if I have to get sick I need to do it now."
Or if you were in school you HOPED you ran into a contagious classmate just to get out of school and were happy if you succeeded. Speaking of which. Though we've been rather miserable Chris and I are also so happy and thankful to have had all these days to be together. You guys don't know how much we miss each other with work. We're still that much in love like when we first met. That's good and that should never change. I do feel like I've snuck out of school by being ill. And it's so nice to be home and just watch cartoons. That's what I used to do. Actually it's funny we've been watching episodes of the original 70s Incredible Hulk. We used to both love that show growing up. My gosh though what an ugly time period it was. I'm glad I lived through so little of it. I don't know what changed in the 80s but it was so the far better with the lovely colors, better furniture, music and just everything was a vast improvement. It was like we came out of the dark ages.

So yes I was working on a new tank build. I had siliconed on these lovely sea green brick panels to the glass. I then added expanding foam to create a water fall. But I didn't know to seal all the seams. The foam got between them and went behind and pulled the main three panels up. I didn't figure out how this happened til yesterday. I'm going to have to take it apart and start over. I hope I don't have to destroy the foam waterfall. That would suck and be a waste of money and materials. I can't do anything about it yet. I'm too weak but can't wait to get back to project. I've already lost a nepenthes. I hate getting sick because stuff always dies on me. It's been hard taking care of the pets but we're both doing that best we can. As far as making the tank with foam bricks no one's done it the way I am so this is a first that I have to figure out on my own and I've already made stupid beginner mistakes. Hope this next time is done right.
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So the new hard drives finally arrived. They came late but I hope that now I can finish the organizing that I had started. I hope I remember where I left off as well. I know I was in 2016 but not exactly sure what I was doing. Here's what the new ones look like.

I'm not feeling well today, but I need to try to work on this because I want everything transferred before the end of the month. I finally cleaned my art table. Now I want to make sure my computer desk is free of all but the most minimal stuff. I hope the roof guys come in the new week and we get that all sorted. Anyway I'm still not well. I'm recovering but still need prayers. Don't worry it's nothing serious just uncomfortable and sometimes painful. Anyway I hope I'm level headed enough today to work on something that requires strategizing.

I worked some more on my RipTalon character sheet yesterday but still have a long way to go. I wasn't feeling well to finish. I guess today I'm not doing art as I really need to finish this whole hard drive thing. I need to find time to make a Minion video. I'm dealing with a bird jerk on youtube so I'll make a post about that later on too. And I'm majorly behind on plant videos. Anyway, I'm definitely channeling RipTalon lately since he's my rebellious INTJ side. But it's founded and logical. His back story is he was against that his society forces raptors to become cyborgs once they are adult age. Few question this practice and the ones that have are forced into it and given the worst treatment and parts. Sound like today doesn't it? His government says it's for the good of all raptors, for their "safety" and "health" and other lies and BS. He avoids it a long time and resist but eventually is captured and violently forced into. His head is the only organic part of him left when they are done with him. No other raptor ever got such an extreme treatment. Hum, I should write his back story at some point. Of the four I think I treat him the worst for the stuff he's had to go through.
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So other than losing Pico and Gallo things have been going pretty well. I've been having a lot of fun with my cactuses and been very busy on youtube. I posted a birthday wish list there and need to post it here as there will be more detail here. But I woke up with a bad fibro attack today. Started with my back hurting in my left shoulder blade. It then moved up into my left eye socket, jaw, head and left arm. I've just been in pain all day. Usually this stops around 5ish but not today. It's still going. I've just been in a haze not able to think and do much. So much for potting up cactuses.

I got a big cactus in the mail today. It's kind of a long story. Chris had bought me a lovely big cactus from Lowes for our June anniversary. It was a Trichocereus grandiflorus. It looked good but it had all these dead flowers. The next day I got it down to clean it up and repot. I took off the dead flowers and found a big rot hole in the crown. The dead flowers had covered it up. If it had only been the top I could have saved it but the rot went all the way through. Luckily we took it back and were able to get the money back. But I was upset to not have a big lovely cactus. I managed to find one online from a store called the Succulent Source. It took a long time to ship because they used Fedex but I got it today. It's lovely and I ordered a small unknown one too. They gave me a bonus unnamed succulent too so YAY. But I haven't felt well enough to work with them so they're just sitting in my room. But I'm happy I finally got my gift. I love this kind of cactus. Mine's only 5 inches tall. The one from lowes was bigger around 9 inches. But it will grow in time. I haven't liked any of my icons here for Sick so I decided to use this one of Fear being rescued by George for sick or hurt. That is a very good representation of now I feel right now anyway. I wanted to work on art today but couldn't do much of anything other than watch videos and couldn't even pay much attention to those.

My computer room birds are all doing well. Minion, Emma III, Whitey, Nitro and Nautica are all well. Oh I need to mention that I really need a tablet for art. Mine is completely broken. I'm a mouse artist now. I finished the beautiful Ace of Spades for Fear and plan to turn that into a fictional Metal album cover. Perhaps I can work on that tomorrow. I just realized I need to reinstall all my custom text on photoshop. That will suck as those were always hard to add. They weren't fonts. Fonts are easy. I forget what they are called by they are like layers and textures for text.

I need to find time to post a flame war here too. I had to recently dump a buddy that's just been leading me on for a long time and I called her out on her BS and she got pissed. So I let her have it. It was one of those I destroyed with one paragraph. I love it when they are left speechless and it's over. No more BS. Typical of feeling types though. She's already been replaced anyway. They always get replaced by someone better that fills the same niche.

Has anyone heard from

kabuldur here on LJ? I'm very worried about her. She's just disappeared without a trace. I worry something bad happened. I emailed her yesterday and haven't heard back. I'll try again tomorrow.

I've got a few story ideas for Scary Fear I will be posting soon too. They start great but don't go anywhere so I hope some of you might come up with something. So more on that later.
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I am still sick. I have had some bad few days yesterday and the day before. Itchy runny hose, watery eyes and coughing. Can't breath and had to use a lot of nasal spray. I actually drew Scary Fear sick in my condition. Poor guy. He looks how I feel. I don't know when I'll get around to inking and coloring it though. I did feel well enough yesterday to pull out my LED peacock and my light up fluffy chick. We don't have much in the way of decorations but my room is the nicest looking room since we cleaned it up so well. We were so close to finishing the house before new years but with me getting sick for over a week it has messed things up and I don't know if we can meet the deadline now. I'm still not well but today is the best I have felt. My nose and eyes aren't on fire. I was quoting the Grinch a lot. "I'm leaking." Anyway, does anyone remember what year we got the fluffy light up chick? I don't think it was later than 2016. I know Chris bought it for me because I really wanted it and knew it would be gone the year after. And with 2016 being the start of the mess with my mother's house and business there was no rest for two years and the chick was probably lost all that time. I can't find pics of him on Flickr or DA though I do remember posting one. So maybe I posted it here. Unfortunately for some stupid reason I tagged very few of m posts as Christmas. I must rectify that. If I have time I must finish those last two years of tags that are still not done and still do some more organizing of my older entries here. The cards should be ready today. Chris will have to pick them up because I'm still in no condition to drive.

Anyway here are pics of my cute decorations.

The chick and the peacock.

I think we've had this peacock since 2011. That's insane because I don't remember it being that long ago. It's sad the stuff that's been in storage and forgotten. I love this thing.

And the chick first time being out and put together. These things are too cute or too pretty to be put outside. They could also get stolen which I definitely don't want. And the rain and sun would destroy them. I love them too much for that. So they are inside decor.

Ok so mostly I've been playing Red dead so time to share some pics of Arthur as George.

( George Smith in RDR2 )

And that's what I have been up to the past weeks. It's been a good game to play while sick.
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I'm still sick. I am so ready for this cold to be over. Yesterday really sucked with the itchy burning runny nose phase, watery itchy eyes, coughing and sneezing. I know that's the tail end of it but it sucks. Had a slight sore throat this morning. I need to be well so I can drive again. Tomorrow I want to go and get my new glasses done. It's far and I need to be well for that. I also need to call the print place and see if they'll accept using my paper. It's far away too. That's been about it. Still gaming. I'm now in chapter 4 of Red Dead 2. I think there are six chapters. I'm really enjoying it. And when I thought I was done with Forza they've added a new download called Fortune Island. It looks lovely but you have to pay for it so I'm not in a hurry to get it. Chris and I finished watching the latest season of Travelers. It was short only 10 eps and one bad ep that the series could have done without. But we loved the last episode and if they don't make anymore then I'll be very happy because they ended it in a way that you don't need to make a new season. It was very satisfying. We were very pleased. I actually hope there isn't a season 4 because then they have a chance to screw it all up. Somethings when they are good need to be left alone.
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So I did get sick after all. I mentioned that sore throat I had gotten. Never fails. All my life if I get a sore throat I get sick. I got a cold and had some achy sleepless nights. I'm still sick now but doing way better. Chris took time off from work and took care of me. I was too weak to even game but I did try. I mostly watched Netflix. I watched the movie Mogli and boy did that suck. They changed so much. I'm a big fan of the book it just pissed me off. I hated it. It started with Bageera the panther dropping off Mowgli at the wolf pack. No, in the book Mowgli crawled his way there on his own. Tabaki is a jackle but they turned him into a hyena. They added a stupid albino wolf for no reason. They made kaa the python a female when he's a male. They didn't name some of the characters like Chill the kite or Hathi the elephant. They made Boldeo a white guy when he was an Indian and never gave him a name. They also made him nice when he's a big jerk. The final fight with Sheer Kahn was with elephants and not bulls and the elephants did not destroy the village. And many more. I'm a bit of an expert on the book. I love the book and not movie or cartoon has ever come close to doing it justice other than the Chuck Jones cartoon. Yes it was a long violent book and it was geared towards kids because people back then weren't namby pamby wimps and knew kids could take it and liked these kinds of stories. And as a bird lover they put in a scene where macaws flew by. There are no macaws in India. The budget went all into the animation but no research. I'd rather have a movie that looks crappy but is well written. Is it too much to ask for both?

Travelers season 3 is out. I have been waiting for that. But only 10 episodes. That worries me a bit. Chris and I got about half way through it last night. Only one bad ep and a few confusing ones just because there are so many new characters. I hope they don't screw it up. The first two seasons were great.

I finally got all the horses I want in Red Dead 2. The cheats worked beautifully. I have decent money in the game and my fave horses but I don't think I'll go online yet and I certainly won't allow updates. So long as nothing breaks the game I think I'll finish story mode off line in case I need more gold or specific horses again. My gosh I spent a whole day just trying to get the horse for hours reloading the game. Had to give up. The next morning I got it in a few tries. Chris said it's like the chest minine in Dragon's Dogma but for horses. Yes that's exactly what it is. I love that, though it's frustrating the low percents of the rare stuff like 2%. Funny enough I kept getting the rare Arabians, all three colors, that people lose their lunch over because it's the fastest horse. They are pretty but they are too small and the worst thing is they are cowards. They will buck you if an enemy gets close or if you're in a gun fight. That's a worthless horse then. If you can ride it I don't care how fast it is. I go the Missuri Fox Trotter which is like second fastest but that's not why I wanted it. It's part war horse so it's very brave and has high health so I can count on it in a gun fight or hunting dangerous prey. I need the glitch available in case it dies and I lose it. Then I can try for another one. One thing I hate about the game is I wish you could have more than four horses. It should be four horses per stable per town. That would make sense. Anyway the Missuri Fox Trotter is one you only get at the end of the game. Why do I have to wait til the game is over to get the best horse? Screw that, I love this glitch. I'm glad I took all the patches off and reloaded the game. Totally worth the time. Plus I love the color of my horse it's grey with white patches and white eyes. I named it Patchy the Pirate.

Well I still need to recover so I'll stop here for now. This whole getting sick thing has messed everything up on my schedule. I think cards will be late now. I got the paper in yesterday but I'm in no condition to drive. So I will call Monday and probably take them that day and see what kind of deal I can work out with them. And it will take a few days to print and then I can't write up more than maybe five a day without going nuts so it will take me too long to mail them out and yes they will be late. I need to come up with next year's art NOW and draw it long before Dec rolls around.
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My Mr. Burns icon is perfect right now. This is how I feel since yesterday. I'm very weak and tired. Been doing my exercises and my shoulder is slightly better. I can sleep on it for a bit longer. I felt great yesterday so naturally I over did it. I went to the dump my myself. Was happy to get the trash out. Then I washed my jeep in the drive way. That should have been it for my activity but no. Then I went out again for a humburger. So that's two drives in one day which for me and my condition I guess was too much. But that's not all. I got the cover for my Jeep that I've been wanting for a while. It was a huge box but I had to try it out right away. It was the point of washing the jeep so it would be clean under the cover to protect it from the sun. Well it's WAY harder to put on a jeep cover than it is for a short, flat sleek Camaro. It took a lot of pulling and pushing and holding and I should have waited for Chris but that's so typical with me being a J I had to do it RIGHT NOW! I was thrilled I finally got it on but I started to feel it right away. And when I got inside I had shallow breathing, and muscles that felt like jelly. I had to lie down as even sitting took too much energy. I've made some doodles of Fear limp and on the ground because that's how I've gotten. Annoying when my mind is fine and wants to keep doing stuff but my body gives out. Good thing Chris finally came home. Today I'm still weak but trying to regain my energy. I'm sure this still has to do with my surgery and my energy level won't be right for a while. For a normal person what I didn't wasn't that big of a deal. I want to get back to normal. Before my surgeries this stuff probably wouldn't have phased me. Oh and on top of that pretty bad back pains when I still then get up and I can't move because it hurts too much. But I've had that for years and I'm used to that. Wish that's all it was. Having no energy sucks.

Chris bought me Saint's Row 4 for PS4 so I'll be starting that today with my own Fear character. I know what missions to avoid too so it should be a fun game. I'll have to get some screen caps of that for sure. Tomorrow we plan to work around the house and try to empty more of the garage. I'm working on a time lapse video of a pitcher opening. It's my first time so I've made some mistakes like bumping the camera, changing the frame rates and then technical problems like the camera not wanting to record. It thought it had a low battery when it's been plugged into the wall the whole time. Battery should not be an issue. I hope it turns out decent at least. The pitcher has opened already but I don't know how long it will take to put the lid back all the way if at all. So I'm still filming it though I'm tempted to stop it.
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I am doing much better now from my surgery. Not much has happened since I have mostly been in bed recovering but I have less pain now and I'm able to get up and about. I drove for the first time the other day. I went out and got some wipers for my Jeep. The old ones were falling apart. I got some nice high end ones. I've never done that before and it was rather funny how they were square instead of the normal arc shaped. I wasn't sure what to think at first but then realized they match the rest of the car so that's good. They are unique that way. I have yet to test them out as it hasn't rained though today we finally got some heavy rain because it's coming ahead of yet another cold front. My poor plants. When can they ever go back outside? I am sick of this low 40s upper 30s night stuff. It's Spring already this should be over with.

I have no idea how I missed this, but this is the most awesome commercial I have ever seen for the new Jeep.

It's awesome Malcolm came back to play this part. I loved the transition from the original movie to the new modern jeep. And it's nice that the JL looks like it would fit right into Jurassic Park even without the paint job. I found out about this when I saw a still frame and noticed the LED headlights. That's not the original Jeep I thought. So I started to investigate and found this awesome commercial.

Chris and I had a very nice day off yesterday. Oh only one minor annoyance. His phone has been having storage issues so we took it to T mobile to have it looked at. They told him the update he's been avoiding was just a T mobile update and not an os update. So he finally allowed it and well turns out it was an OS update. That's what happened to me last year. I was so mad that now it happened to him too and he doesn't like it either. So he got upgraded from Marshmellow to Nougat. I have been avoiding the update on mine because I'm afraid mine will be worse. I had already been put on Nougat and Oreo is out now which is even worse. I don't want that on my phone. They've also been pestering me to upgrade to the new phone. I do like some things about the new S9 but not enough to switch. I love my phone, it works fine and I like how small it is. The new one is too big and I don't like the edges of the screen. Looks like it's melting off without a decent frame. So I'm going to avoid the update as long as I can and keep my phone that I like as it is. Suck's about Chris's phone. They destroyed his clock on his lock screen and there's no way to fix it.
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Been a while since I've updated but have quite a bit to say. Things have been going quite well. Last Weds I found this lake in Lakeland that has tons of birds and at last got my white pelicans. I got tons of pics and videos I have to sort and upload eventually. I was so happy to finally see these giant birds up close. But they can swim faster than I can run so I wasn't able to keep up wih them the whole time. I walked opposite of the circle they were making. I got to see three different swans. Mute swans, black swans and black headed white swans. Don't know the actual species names of those or if they're variants of the mute swan. I did see a dilute black swan. That was neat. He was grey. I picked up two new lifers at this lake too. Lesser scaup and Northern Shoveler. Unfortunately I was't feeling well. I woke up with a sore throat and have been in bed since then. Chris and I gamed and watched stuff. We're watching bother seasons of Travelers over again. Yesterday I was in bed all day and just watched shows on netflix. OH we watched Cars 3. I liked it. Not as good as the first one but I enjoyed it. I have no desire to see the second one as I know it was so bad. The only thing you need to know from the second one was that Doc died. A stupid move really which shows me that movie was screwed up from the start. This third movie did copy some of the stuff from the first. I hate it when they do that trying to still reap rewards from the original formula. No you have to do all new things with some ties to the original to make things good.

So today I'm still going to take it easy. My throat still hurts and it's hard to talk. I've downloaded google translate on my phone and LOVE this app. I hope they never screw with it in an update. It as a talk feature which is perfect for when I'm sick. I just type what I want to say and push the speaker button. Then it says it for me. Gosh we're living in the future. In my story Innocence Lost I had a think that when Cope would lose his voice he would type on his small laptop and it would talk for him. It was so futuristic and now that technology is here. I love it and I don't. I love it because I always wanted that for myself and now have it. But my story is no longer sci fi and out there in that part of it. I think I need to put that on my tablet though because I hate the text pad. I hate texting. Only my table I have a real keyboard where I can type almost full speed that I do on a real keyboard. So I hope to post my pics soon on flickr but now while I'm sick as the tablet is not as good as a real computer. That reminds me. I had mentioned to Chris one thing I loved about monster truck shows was when the trucks would jump the stadium would like up like a galaxy full of flashes. So pretty and sparkly. Well no more because everyone was using stupid cellphones for cameras. Chris and I were the only ones with real cameras and probably the only ones that got quality close ups like the official news crews do. I'm proud of us. The guys sitting behind us were definitely checking out our gear. We showed off. Chris zoomed into the driver's seat since he knew they were watching us. Haha.

December is finally here. I've got the house sort of ready for Christmas. All the Fall stuff is put away and I have the most important parts out for Christmas. No tree so far. I may not put one up this year but there are Christmasy things up to make up for it if I don't get to it. One minor annoying thing was that sorting through my mother's old stuff I found my old nativity set from when I was a kid. I loved this thing but there's one problem. The baby Jesus is missing. I have no idea where he went. Perhaps he's in a box I haven't opened yet but I'm tempted to track down another set to have mine be complete again. I could use one from a different set since last year we bought one finally. But it's not right. It's not the one I grew up with. So I wasn't looking to spend money again but I might have to do that. On the Christmas card front I think I will make a pic with Schuyler as the hybrid. I don't have much time now and I need to get that done. I need to keep the background simple, which is not something I like to do, but it will still look nice. Just time constraints and lack of a great idea for this year.

I got some nice new nepenthes now. I finally crossed one off my list. I got N. alata. The true species not the ventrata hybrid or the wierd alata from Luzon that I have. I've never liked the weird shaped pitchers on that one. They are all green and they are kind of flat. Some of the preorders I made a few months ago are finally in so I hope they'll ship soon. I need to buy more sphagnum moss and get ready for all the new plants coming in then.

I had to go to the walk in clinic for my ear. It got worse and the doctor had a look. He gave me some prescription ear drops and they have been helping. It's better now but still tender and hurts. I've never had an ear ache so I hope this will get healed soon and never come back.
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Just wanted to let you guys know that are only here on my LJ why I have not posted anything. I had appendicitis and went in for surgery Jan 14th. I'm still recovering from that. Chris has been taking good care of me. I posted on DA about it here. http://thagirion.deviantart.com/journal/Was-in-surgery-659026247
I'm doing well. I'm off the medication now but still get pain, dizziness and weakness. I can walk longer now but still have a way to go. I have some good news about the house too but I'll talk about that later. I'm already tired from sitting at the computer so I must return to rest now. Just wanted to let you guys know what was happening.

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